Awesome news, isn’t it? And it’s about time, too!

First, I want to thank all of you who’ve stayed with me faithfully through the last year of my insane career. Why? Because it’s been 16 verrrrrrry long months since my last erotic romance, Call of the Witches, was published.

Trust me. I never in a million years planned for that to happen. But Forbidden Publications (who bought my Rune Witch Series) was supposed to publish that ebook novella trilogy in the Spring/Summer of 2009. And Trytium Publishing was set to publish A Vampire’s Kiss in the fall of 2009.

Instead Forbidden went out of business in March, shocking many of its authors, including me. That meant I had to stop working on the vamp novel to find a new publisher for the The Rune Witch Series.

One of my local girlfriends called me on Wednesday night because she was at a crossroads in her life. She’s twenty, and she’s trying to figure out what her next move will be. Almost every area of her life sucks right now, and to make matters worse, nothing she’s done career-wise has clicked for her either. Yeah, that was bumming her out, too.

The problem is she’s a creative person. But she’s under pressure from her family and society to create a traditional life for herself. Yet she knows in her heart that’s just not gonna work for her.

What it boils down to is she’s never given herself permission to do what makes her happy. And she’s not alone. I think that’s what happens to a lot of people at any age. We spend too much time thinking about what we feel we should do rather than finding a way to do what makes us happy.

I did the coolest thing on Monday. Okay, first let me say I’m a verrrrrrry organized person. I mean, how could I write and publish over 45 books in 23 years without being organized? Duh. Plus, organization makes me kinda orgasmic.

Really.

Anyway, when I woke up on Monday morning I was suddenly fed up with the book issue on my new site. Yeah, I was not happy that my book info and links are still at my old books site at Blogger.

I had a fab conference call with my agent and Alex on Friday afternoon. Then my agent called that night to discuss a contract he’s working on for me.

In the course of the conversation he says: “When I tell people about you, I always say you’re the most honest person I know.”

I laugh and thank him for the compliment. “Well,” I reply. “I am what I am. What you see is what you get with me. I’m the same in person as I am on the web.”

“I know,” he agrees. “I admire that about you because it’s so unusual.”

Alex has created the most awesome new feature for my site. It’s called “Laura’s Naughty Sex Shop.”

Oh, yeah. It’s exactly what it sounds like. *kinky grin*

This is a store where you can find all the products I’ve recommended on this blog (and more!) in one, convenient place. My fav erotica and paranormal romance novels, sex toys & kink, trashy lingerie, nonfiction sex books, and groovin’ music to fuck by.

Is that cool or what?!

Since I read a LOT of erotica every year, readers often ask me about my favs. So I thought I’d talk about some of my fav authors and series in my blog post today.

Oh, and don’t worry. For those of you who’ve been following my posts this week Wes DID give it up last night. I’ll tell you all about it on Thursday. *wicked grin*

There’s been some grumbling at Goodreads this year about a new trend in erotica.  It’s called m/m romance.  That means it’s a Male Romance.  There is no heroine, just two heroes who meet, lust after each other, have lots of wild sex, and eventually fall in love with each other.  It used to be called Gay Romance.
 
Okay, [...]

Someone at Amazon finally started an erotica group.  Yay!  Much to my delight, I discovered it a few days ago and started posting immediately on that board. 
 
I used to be very active in the romance and paranormal romance groups at Amazon, but got so involved with Goodreads I don’t post on those Amazon boards anymore.  Plus, many [...]

Hope you had a great weekend.  I sure did.  As you know my husband was away, playing in a three-day golf tournament, so I worked through the weekend.  That means I got tons of editing finished on Bewitched at the Beach.  Yes, I’m a very happy woman today!
 
Plus, I heard from the publisher/editor of my PNR novels on Saturday.  He’s [...]

I’ve created this journal to talk about my fav subject….erotica and paranormal romance novels!  I plan to post daily, but we’ll see how that goes.  This year is packed with book deadlines for my own series of novels, but if I keep these postings short I should be able to manage this, right?
 
Okay, what am I reading [...]